Mayerson Academy is 25! That’s a Fact!

Mayerson Academy has been inspiring educators, organizations and communities to be their best for 25 years. That’s right—this year, we turn 25! As we celebrate this milestone anniversary, we’re taking a look back – and forward – at our work and all of our amazing partners. As we search our memories, files, and photos, we are simultaneously humbled and exhilarated to see the long history of serving with excellence. In that spirit, here are a few “factoids” about our work.

Mayerson Academy supports an average of 594 classes each year, providing CPS employees with many opportunities to enhance their content knowledge and pedagogical skills.

Mayerson Academy has trained over 200 Northern Kentucky University staff members across 98 departments to appreciate their own and others’ strengths at NKU.

This year, Mayerson Academy supported the completion of 5 resident-led community improvement projects in Madisonville and engaged more than 200 community members to activate their strengths for community change through the Strong Cincinnati

Mayerson’s Thriving Learning Communities program – which applies the science of character strengths to improve students’ social-emotional learning competencies – reaches schools as close as 1.2 miles away from Mayerson to as far away as 6,815 miles away in Beijing.

Mayerson Academy reaches 4,000 students per year throughour partnership with blended learning and gaming experts Happify. Through this partnership, we have developed an online micro-learning experience that gives students a “digital” platform to apply their character strengths while building social and emotional learning skills and digital citizenship all at the same time.

Mayerson Academy’s online Orton-Gillingham Multisensory Reading program is the 1st online program accredited by the International Dyslexia Association.

We greatly look forward to continuing our work with our partners in an effort to make our schools, communities and organizations the best they can possibly can be, and we can’t wait to see what the next 25 years have in store!